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 NI
(No.375)
<<CONTENTS>>
2 Letters
4 Southern
Exposure
Please go in! A basketball drama from Zimbabwe photographed by Tsvangirayi
Mukwazhi.
5 View from
the South
Why did scrap metal in a Delhi junkyard start exploding, killing some
workers? Urvashi Butalia investigates the mystery and finds the world's
wars are affecting lives far removed from the battleground.
6 Currents
Indigenous Botswanans' case goes global; epidemic of attacks on Iraqi
women; Uruguay's leftist landslide.
PLUS: Big Bad World Dreaming of Dubya, by Polyp.
PLUS: Wordpower - the language of international organizations.
PLUS: Speechmarks and Seriously
9 Upside down
Start with the prevailing disposition of power, trim your principles
to fit, and you end up with an organization stood on its head. David
Ransom spells out the consequences.
13 The United
Nations system
A route map around the labyrinth.
14 Saving
humanity from hell
It never was the UN's job to make heaven on earth. Shashi Tharoor
defends the organization against misguided missiles.
17 In memory
of Srebrenica
Ten years after the massacre, when the UN stood by, Fatima Hassan
remembers.
18 The sky's
no limit
Adam Ma'anit sinks into the murky world of carbon trading.
20 The UN
- THE FACTS
22 Grimm rewards
Ian Williams reckons that reform might work in mysterious ways.
24 Missing
- the Millennium Development Goals
26 Bluewash
Kenny Bruno follows the road from environmental "greenwash"
to the UN's Global Compact with corporate power.
28 Cradle
to grave
The UN does not have a clean slate in Iraq. Felicity Arbuthnot recalls
an embargo that even banned funeral shrouds.
30 Humane
development
It's possible to make space for a radical project even inside the
belly of the beast. Mark Engler tells the story of the Human Development
Report.
32 A brief
history of the UN
34 Cosmopolis
David Ransom makes a plea for common humanity.
36 The Jumbo
NI Prize Crossword
With a Jumbo prize to match.
37 Mixed Media
MUSIC, BOOKS, FILM review
40 Country
Profile -Argentina
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